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David Malpass, a former Deputy Assistant Treasury Secretary under President Ronald Reagan and a former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State under President George H. W. Bush, is a Republican candidate for the United States Senate from the State of New York.

Mr. Malpass, 53, is the founder and president of Encima Global , an economic research and consulting firm. His work provides insight and analysis into global economic trends and government policies.

As a former chief economist at Bear Stearns’, Mr. Malpass’s team ranked second in the Institutional Investor ranking of Wall Street economists in 2005, 2006, and 2007.

Mr. Malpass co-authors the Current Events column in Forbes magazine and his opinion pieces appear regularly in the Wall Street Journal. He speaks frequently at conferences, board meetings, and on national business television networks, and sits on the boards of the Economic Club of New York and the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations.

Mr. Malpass, an expert on federal budget and tax issues, served on Congress’s blue-ribbon panel on budget scoring in 2002-2003, was the Republican staff director of Congress’s Joint Economic Committee in 1989-1990, and was Senior Tax Analyst at the Senate Budget Committee in 1984-1986.

While serving Presidents Reagan and Bush, Mr. Malpass worked on an array of economic, budget, and international issues, including: the 1986 tax  cut, several congressional budget resolutions, the Gramm-Rudman budget law, the savings-and-loan bailout, NAFTA, the Brady plan for developing-country debt, and fast-track trade authority. He was a member of the government’s Senior Executive Service and has testified frequently before Congress.

Mr. Malpass received a bachelor’s degree in physics from Colorado College  and an MBA from the University of Denver. He studied international economics at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service, and speaks Spanish, French, and Russian.